Noah as a USB audio interface

thorkell · Post by **thorkell** » Sun Feb 01, 2004 5:09 pm

I'm just wondering if it is possible to use the Noah as Asio interface for laptops? Has anyone experienced with this, that is playback and 2channel recording. Is it 44.1 Khz only? How does it handle playback, latency etc?..

wolf · Post by **wolf** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 3:19 am

a friend of mine wanted to get the rme hdsp for his laptop in the first place, but ditched the decision in favour of the noah box. He's quite happy with his setup (uses an 2,53GHz Gericom as laptop "frontend" running logic and ableton live). I remember, he could go down to 6 ms with no probs, track count depends on the harddrive (he uses an external firewire drive, which gives better results than a laptop hd). Yes, 44,1 kHz only, afaik.
So to answer your question, yes, it can be used very well as audio interface and is in fact a good (and portable !) combo with a laptop.

My friend was soooo happy about not having to carry the half of his studio with him anymore when playing live (he lives in the 5th floor and also got the laptop new, so before he had to go about four times the stairs, now only one (!) time).

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Wolfgang

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powerpulsarian · Post by **powerpulsarian** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:09 pm

Do you know how many audio channels can be going in and out on the Noah at one time - and the performance (as far as latency) with the max?

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:43 am

Hi there,
I experienced this with a friend on my laptop.
Record = no problem.
Max read channels : 8 tracks.

It may differ according to disk speed, or to the quality of the usb controller.

Myself I see the usb port more for the graphic interface and occasional patching of audio in (or midi In/Out!) ..... It's very handy.

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cexc · Post by **cexc** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:52 pm

hello to everyone

one question . . . which standard has the noah interface usb 1.1 or usb 2.0?

alfonso · Post by **alfonso** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:06 pm

Wired · Post by **Wired** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:25 pm

Curious if we got our terminology right, ..are you saying you can use the noah as an asio source like a souncard...so that your vst instruments on your laptop can use it....say like an external soundcard i/o?...with say, ...6ms latency

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sat Jul 03, 2004 4:06 pm

Yes noah can act as a soundcard with asio driver

Wired · Post by **Wired** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 12:24 am

So, if i have a laptop, ..and need asio i/o, you are saying that it can act as a 2in/2out audio card?....so that i don't have to buy quatafire or ediral fa101 unless i want more i/o?, that is good news if its true

Post by **garyb** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 2:15 am

it's true.

Wired · Post by **Wired** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 3:51 pm

The only issue is , i think, the usb 1, if it was usb 2, maybe we would get enuf audio and midi to run, usb 2 is much faster than 1

No?